Today OMBIIGIZI, the collaborative project between Zoon and Status/Non-Status, released their music video for Street Names and Land Claims
The fifth and final single is taken from their upcoming album called SHAME which comes out tomorrow through Arts & Crafts.
A heavy alterna-rocking with a serious message song.
About the track by OMBIIGIZI:
‘We are the effect and our shame is hard to define,’ OMBIIGIZI sings over the sounds of their towering guitars constructed on ancient syncopated rhythms, the band’s quintessential blend of modern and traditional elements. Charged by its themes of Indigenous land rights and colonization, the poetry and distortion of Adam Sturgeon unites with the vast soundscapes of Daniel Monkman, as OMBIIGIZI ride the razor’s edge of society’s confrontation with Mother Nature.
“‘Street Names and Land Claims’ was another song where it was really fun to push ourselves into territories of interesting timing, rhythm, and adding a bit more grit to the table,” remarks Sturgeon. “The lyrics are totally abstract and confused just like the spiritually broke language of English. And we really played on that theme a lot with juxtapositions and the silly things that people put in their pockets to inform themselves that they’re living in the right way, and that everything is a contradiction.
“We need to drive to the environmental protest. We have to spend eight million dollars on the echo-chic pants. Our lattes cost $12 and we’re not giving the change to the people sitting outside the coffee shop,” he continues. “So ‘Street Names and Land Claims,’ even the song title is very time-appropriate as we tear down statues.”
Street Names And Land Claims gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
OMBIIGIZI – Street Names And Land Claims [Music Video]
